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Even though the election was foreordained and there was no direct popular vote, the new President-elect waged an active ten-month campaign to overcome a serious problem: he was relatively unknown. The son of a general, Figueiredo is a career officer who had been the shadowy director of Brazil's national intelligence service under Geisel. Figueiredo even hired a Sao Paulo advertising agency to improve his image. At their direction, he abandoned his customary tinted glasses for clear lenses, began to kiss babies and beauty queens and even submitted to a kindergarten interview session, during which he told...
...year. In many instances, the subpoenas are being issued despite state "shield" laws that are supposed to protect reporters from such depredations. "There are so many confidentiality cases pending now that we just can't keep track of them all," says Jack Landau, the committee's director. Adds Don H. Pace, an Ohio lawyer with a number of newspaper clients: "It's as if somebody suggested this approach at a meeting of prosecutors. There's been a flood...
...under construction near Beloyarsk in the Urals. They plan to build even more of these reactors, which, to the joy of power planners and the dismay of many others, produce more plutonium than they consume. Indeed, Mikhail Troyanov, a well-respected and tough-minded physicist who serves as deputy director of the Obninsk laboratory, predicts that after 1990 breeders will be the backbone of the Soviet energy system. Says he: "I don't see any difficulties in going to plutonium...
...resorted to costly tertiary recovery methods in some of its fields. Solar energy, which Americans hope eventually will ease their energy problems, is not taken seriously by Soviet scientists, who, for the most part, seem not only highly competent but almost aggressively realistic. Explains Academician Alexander Sheindlin, director of the Soviet Union's High Temperature Institute: "The U.S.S.R. is a northern country. We cannot rely on the sun for energy...
Doctors at University Health Services (UHS) have treated eight Winthrop House residents in the past week for stomach disorders with symptoms identical to those of salmonella poisoning, Sholem Postel, assistant director of UHS, said yesterday. Several other Winthrop House residents said yesterday they have the same symptoms but have not visited...